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Re: Retardation and morality
« Reply #25 on: January 26, 2009, 06:57:39 AM »
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Well the question isn't whether he's immoral but amoral.

Yes, thank you, Daniel.  Do you not think that's why I offered the question of whether is actions were an immoral action or an amoral action?  Or why I posed the question at the very beginning of the thread about the distinction between understanding complex adult issues and having zero sense of morality?

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Re: Retardation and morality
« Reply #26 on: January 26, 2009, 03:09:05 PM »
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No need to be grouchy. No offense or pointedness was intended in my post.
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Re: Retardation and morality
« Reply #27 on: January 26, 2009, 05:28:52 PM »
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It's not about taking offense.  The correction is not warranted because I have spent the entire thread talking about the distinction between immorality and amorality as it applies to this character.  I know what the question is without your having to tell me.

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Re: Retardation and morality
« Reply #28 on: January 26, 2009, 05:37:31 PM »
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Ah, back to deleting things that poke fun at you but don't break any rules, are we?
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Re: Retardation and morality
« Reply #29 on: January 26, 2009, 06:01:01 PM »
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Ah, back to deleting things that poke fun at you but don't break any rules, are we?

I've been removing items, posts and thread that poke fun at numerous people, by numerous posters, for numerous reasons.  But why bother paying attention when you can just make everything into a personal vendetta.

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Re: Retardation and morality
« Reply #30 on: January 26, 2009, 10:30:03 PM »
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Well the question isn't whether he's immoral but amoral.

Yes, thank you, Daniel.  Do you not think that's why I offered the question of whether is actions were an immoral action or an amoral action?  Or why I posed the question at the very beginning of the thread about the distinction between understanding complex adult issues and having zero sense of morality?
Well, if you're looking it in a way where he chose to chase the girls because he thought of the malice and pleasure then that is immoral, but if you look it in a way where he did it because of natural instincts, and not because he processed the consequences in his brain, then that would be amoral. I think Faulkner was gearing towards the latter.
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Re: Retardation and morality
« Reply #31 on: January 26, 2009, 10:40:41 PM »
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If Faulkner's intention was to show the "punishment" as injustice spawned from fear and blind adherence to social mores, then I feel confident it would be the latter.

However, I do not take from that, or from the specific example discussed in the story, that retarded people as a whole have zero sense of morality.  My son is one, and he's already clever enough to know when he's getting into something he ought not.

 


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